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1 Professiona Kingston Organisationa and workforce deveopment soutions n Facuty of Business and Law

2 Aways improving 0/1 Contents Wecome 2 Why Kingston? 4 Course portfoio 6 Course detais 8 Work-based earning 12 Knowedge transfer partnership 14 Research and consutancy 16 Find out more 18 Left, Kingston Hi campus

3 Providing soutions 2/3 Wecome Pan for success with Kingston University Kingston University s Business and Law schoos are innovative, vibrant institutions at the eading edge of their subject areas. Through the deivery of reevant, timey and innovative programmes, we hep organisations achieve their strategic objectives by arming their empoyees, our students, with the skis and knowedge to address key issues and take advantage of evoving opportunities. Our programmes are academicay rigorous, practica and taught fexiby so that earning is integrated into the workpace. For the empoyer, the return on investment is timey: earn today; impement tomorrow. We work cosey with appropriate professiona bodies and organisations from the pubic, private and third sector to suppement our expertise in teaching, research and consutancy. Their input into our course content and deivery ensures that students are chaenged to master the atest deveopments from both an academic and practitioner viewpoint. Creating and disseminating knowedge Our portfoio incudes certificated part-time masters courses, work-based earning programmes, knowedge transfer partnerships, continuing professiona deveopment and company-specific short courses. Our business deveopment team wi hep ensure that we meet your business needs in the most appropriate way. I do hope that you wi find a the information you are ooking for in this brochure, and we ook forward to working with you and your organisation both now and into the future. Chris Bristow Director, Post-experience Graduate Programmes and Corporate Learning

4 Our proven track record 4/5 Why Kingston? If you are ooking to grow and enhance your organisation, we have a range of services to offer, drawing on the reputation and strengths of Kingston Business Schoo and Kingston Law Schoo. We strongy beieve in buiding partnerships with our cients. Our expert team wi work with you to find the best soutions to fit your needs, whether they are through research, consutancy, our existing taught quaifications or bespoke courses. Expert academic staff A masters courses incude a research project, a consutancy project or a dissertation, which can be appied to your organisation to sove a key issue. Our research speciaists supervise students to ensure the vaidity and accuracy of research outcomes and recommendations. Staff are engaged in research and many undertake secondments to industry and government. This two-way fow of information, best practice and knowedge creation is refected in our teaching and professiona practice. Appied earning We pace an emphasis on working in groups to mirror the reaities of the workpace, and integrate new technoogy into the earning process. Our students are encouraged to chaenge traditiona approaches and deveop new ways of thinking about business and the aw. They wi be asked to bring ive probems to the sessions, as the focus is on earning that can be directy transated into practice. Learning techniques incude interactive workshops, reevant case studies and a combination of group and individua work. Teaching exceence Our teaching is interactive and coaborative, encouraging debate and interaction between staff and students. Teaching is by a combination of cassroom sessions, workshops and seminars. Exampes of teaching exceence: Our reputation for high-quaity teaching is verified by government agencies and professiona bodies as a part of our accreditations. Kingston Business Schoo has been awarded an exceent rating by the Higher Education Funding Counci of Engand for its teaching. The Facuty is one of the few in the UK with two Nationa Teaching Feowship award winners. We are one of the few universities in the UK to have a Boomberg simuated trading room, where students can hone their anaytica and financia skis. Kingston Business Schoo is an active member of the Association of Business Schoos and Academy of Business in Society two unique networks of eading business schoos that promote thought eadership, sustainabe enterprise and representation for business schoos. Bringing industry expertise into the cassroom We make use of our strong industry inks to bring practitioner input into our curricuum and teaching. Our Strategy into Practice, Entrepreneurship Insight and HRM Seminar series are deivered by eminent business practitioners from private- and pubicsector organisations, and discuss current strategic management themes. Individua courses aso feature guest ecturers from industry to suppement the teaching from our renowned academic staff. Innovation Since 2008, Kingston University has been the UK s foremost university for producing graduate start-ups. This cuture of creative thinking is aso embedded in students working for arger empoyers, meaning they bring innovation and an entrepreneuria approach to those organisations.

5 Futureproofing your organisation Course portfoio Our courses are characterised by critica and innovative thinking, enabing tomorrow s eaders to think differenty. Students are chaenged to consider new products, processes and practices, and appy them to their organisation. Whether an individua or a group of empoyees needs education or training to enhance their skis, or requires a continuous professiona deveopment (CPD) course, our courses are an exceent soution for busy professionas who need to fit their deveopment needs around work and persona ife. In addition to our part-time taught courses (see pages 8 11), we aso offer bespoke CPD courses, short courses and in-company training. Bespoke CPD, short courses and in-company training Deivered either at your offices or on campus at Kingston University, these courses can be fuy taiored to suit your organisation and offer fexibiity in terms of numbers of attendees, frequency and time of teaching. Most programmes run over a one- to three-day period. For a current ist, pease see ac.uk/short-courses-and-executive-deveopment Exampe courses incude: Leading strategicay Empoyment aw essentias Finance for non-financia managers Marketing Innovation Sustainabiity Risk management Lega and courtroom skis Sessions can be packaged in different ways for exampe, across evenings or weekends. Learning can be formay assessed via assignments, and accredited against our programmes. Success story in-company training Euro RSCG Group UK is the third argest marketing communications group in the UK. Having won a contract with a word-eading financia services company, they needed to increase their understanding of the banking and finance sector. The course director of Kingston Business Schoo s Banking & Finance MSc designed a bespoke two-day course that was deivered at Euro RSCG s premises to 10 executives from a eves, none of whom had previous experience in this area. As a resut of the training, the participants reported that they had a far better understanding of the sector and coud offer an improved and more confident service to their cient. 6/7

6 Programme of study 8/9 Course detais: taught, part-time Course Duration Weekend Weekday Weekday Distance Find out more evening day reease earning MBA Executive MBA MBA by Distance Learning 3 years Genera management Management MA 2½ years Management PgDip Business Management Practice BA(Hons) top-up 1 year Marketing Strategic Marketing MSc 1 year Human resource management and psychoogy Human Resource Management MSc/PgDip Interna Communication Management MA 1 year Internationa Human Resource Management MSc/PgDip Occupationa & Business Psychoogy MSc Aso see empoyment aw courses under the Law section Finance Banking & Finance MSc Aso see corporate and financia aw course and Law with Finance under Law section Business research Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) 4 8 years Heath management Leadership & Management in Heath PgDip/MSc

7 Course Duration Weekend Weekday Weekday Distance Find out more evening day reease earning Creative industries Advertising & the Creative Economy MA Communication Design & the Creative Economy MA Creative Writing & the Creative Economy MA Design: Product and Space & the Creative Economy MA Fashion & the Creative Economy MA Fim Making & the Creative Economy MA Journaism & the Creative Economy MA Managing in the Creative Economy MA Museums and Gaeries & the Creative Economy MA Music & the Creative Economy MA Pubishing & the Creative Economy MA Law Empoyment Law & Mediation PgCert 1 year Dispute Resoution PgCert 14 weeks Lega Studies MA 1- LLMs in Genera Law Corporate & Financia Law Law with Criminoogy Dispute Resoution Empoyment Law Environmenta Law & Sustainabiity Internationa Commercia Law Law with Finance Law with Law of Internationa Trade

8 Profit from: Work-based earning 12/13 Our team wi work with your company to devise a taiored, fexibe, credit-based programme cuminating in the achievement of a postgraduate quaification. Our work-based earning programmes incude the foowing areas: Business, management, professiona and consutancy practice Organisationa earning and deveopment practice Career and taent management Innovation and entrepreneurship Leadership practice Heathcare management and eadership Project management practice Study aows progression from postgraduate certificate to dipoma and masters eve through: taught cassroom sessions; open and bended earning using web-based study materias; other speciaist training courses; and on-the-job deveopment. We aim to ensure that the knowedge gained is reevant to both individua and organisationa needs. The programme can: consist entirey of individua earning goas, based on current and future work activities; incude taught modues at Kingston University; and incude credit from courses attended in the past and previous work-based activities.

9 Profit from: Knowedge Transfer Partnerships 14/15 If your organisation wishes to innovate, expand or improve its performance, but does not necessariy have the capabiity in-house, a Knowedge Transfer Partnership (KTP) may be the idea soution. KTP is a government initiative that heps organisations, particuary SMEs, to gain access to university knowedge, expertise and resources. KTPs support companies by providing up to 60 per cent of costs, project management and training. Your company wi identify a project that has strategic importance to your organisation s deveopment. Projects must be: innovative; growth orientated; and run between six months and three years. Once a partnership has been approved, a suitaby quaified graduate (Associate), supervised jointy by you and Kingston Business Schoo, wi be empoyed for up to three years to impement the project. A KTP offers a great opportunity for companies to access knowedge, technoogy and skis that woud not be avaiabe through other means. The transfer of knowedge and expertise to the business provides commercia benefits, improves competitive advantage and often initiates a cuture change within the organisation. Debra Riey Senior Researcher from the Strategy, Marketing and Innovation Department at Kingston Business Schoo Benefits: The expertise of Kingston University s academics and researchers The knowedge and skis of an appropriate Associate Minima expense Kingston University has been engaged with knowedge transfer since 1992 and has faciitated approximatey 90 ong-term partnerships vaued at more than 10miion. The average turnover of Kingston partner companies has grown by more than 40 per cent as a resut of two-year KTPs. We aso offer a variety of other knowedge transfer schemes. For the atest information, pease see Success story Renaisi is an award-winning socia enterprise operating in the regeneration sector. The company recruited a graduate, supported by Kingston Business Schoo, to hep them understand changes to regeneration poicy and funding brought about by the new coaition government. Renaisi found that the two-year KTP partnership made a significant contribution towards the rapid adjustment the company had to make in response to the unprecedented upheava in the regeneration market. We are now better paced to prosper in the future. Rob Pearce, director

10 Profit from: Research and Consutancy 16/17 We can offer our expertise in various fieds: Accounting and finance Corporate governance Entrepreneurship Human resource management Information management Law Marketing Witness famiiarisation We can assist in the deveopment of a business pan, feasibiity studies for new projects, market research, or the evauation of an organisationa poicy process or change by: carrying out independent research that your business may not have the time, expertise or resources to do; appying up-to-date knowedge to your business processes; and producing a report, presentation or seminar to disseminate resuts to your staff. MBA and masters consutancy projects Kingston s fu-time MBA attracts we-quaified and highy taented students, and provides them with opportunities to work with a company such as yours to resove a particuar business issue. Projects cuminate in a written report, which is then presented to the company. We can manage the whoe process for you and give you access to this unique poo of taented business professionas and tomorrow s business innovators. Work pacements and internships A of our undergraduate degrees feature the option to undertake a work pacement in the UK or abroad for 12 months, or to go on a study exchange abroad, with or without a pacement. Businesses gain great benefits by taking on pacement students. Students shoud be given work that chaenges their abiities and stretches their imagination. They shoud aso be provided with opportunities to use initiative and take ownership of certain responsibiities and tasks.

11 18 Find out more For information on business quaifications: E businesspgenquiry@kingston.ac.uk T For information on aw quaifications: E awpgenquiry@kingston.ac.uk T For information on bespoke CPD, short courses and in-company training, work-based earning, Knowedge Transfer Partnerships and research and consutancy: E Kathryn.eiott@kingston.ac.uk E S.Mansoorizangir@kingston.ac.uk T Visit us We host reguar open days and MBA briefings throughout the year. These give potentia students the opportunity to meet with staff and current students, view our faciities and experience Kingston University. Your staff can view dates and book to attend by visiting B(14.102)B